Who would guess that watching a video of a man doing a seemingly mundane everyday task like shaving could be so captivating? In a short ad spot created by the Israeli outpost of Saatchi & Saatchi for a line of men's razorblades, a 44-year-old man named Amit goes through the process of shaving off the beard that he's had for 14 years. And it's pretty intense.

Blame the World Cup. Blame hipsters in Brooklyn. Just blame someone. Of course, we’re talking about the male topknot: that small patch of hair that some guys grow just long enough to tie into a knot at the top of their head.

Forget Brazilian butt lifts, the newest hot thing in medical tourism? Hair transplants in Turkey—not only for the head, but for lush facial hair. (Not every fella has a natural Selleck 'stash or Jon Hamm beard!) After getting a travel press release noting that 15,000 people travel to Turkey for hair transplantation, we did some digging on this trend to find out if undergoing cosmetic procedures abroad is safe.

California cop Sean Salazar, who was undercover posing as a drug addict for five years, was finally able to cut hippie-hair disguise this week, and he looks like a completely different dude. To quote his very candid wife, Rachel, whom he married while undercover and therefore with superlong hippie hair: "You're so handsome. It's like I get to sleep with a completely new man!" We've been there, Rachel.

While watching a major sporting event this weekend, I could barely focus on the action on the field because of what was happening on the star player's head. He's young and smolderingly hot, and yet his thinning hair looked like a child had drawn it on with a Sharpie—haphazardly scribbled, leaving plenty of gaps. This was very much beyond a receding hairline. This was a type of Baby Trump comb-over. Now, I'm down with whatever people want to do with their look, but this seems like less of a choice than a case of extreme denial. He's balding, so why won't he just go bald? I asked hairstylist Mia Santiago of Sharon Dorram at Sally Hershberger in New York City for some advice for dudes who are losing their locks.

Back in 2013, Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez was about to go up to bat when his teammate Alcides Escobar blasted him with a spray of Victoria's Secret perfume. Hilarious practical joke, right? Only, here's the thing: Perez had a four-hit game—and a superstition was born. "We won. We celebrated. I asked him, where did you buy that?" Perez told the Associated Press. "I need to buy some, maybe to wear for the rest of my life." The Royals are now an unexpected contender in the 2014 World Series. Could the secret be Perez's new scent of success?

Cosmetic Dermatologist Dr. Paul Jarrod Frank gets a lot of traffic on his website, but with the help of some simple analytics, he caught on to an interesting trend: The number of views of his informational videos were spiking at some very odd hours. More specifically, his male liposuction video was peaking between midnight and 2 A.M.

If you were born after 1975, you probably associate double-edge razor blades with drug scenes in Pulp Fiction, not with actual shaving. But for decades—and again today, in the trendiest circles—these sharp rectangles of hardened steel have been considered the best way to get a close shave without razor burn or ingrown hairs. And the most economical, too, since double-edge razors cost a fraction of the going price of the typical four-blade razor that men use today. But outside of a slasher film, do they actually work? And more to the point, are they safe?

The way to a man’s heart may be his stomach, but in my case it's the abs: Give me a six pack and you can take my heart. Naturally, I couldn't resist test-driving a new product from the British men's grooming line Nip+Man, which has recently been introduced in this country. Named Ab Fix, this miraculous-sounding gel can "improve skin tone and texture of your abdominal area,” according to the London-based company’s website.

Is there time to get your dad a decent present before Sunday? Is this America? Get your ass (and debit card) to the nearest drugstore and pick up one of these carefully curated options. And then thoroughly remove the price tag.